Hunting in Easton with Edwin F. Hale Sr.

Edwin F. Hale Sr.'s home

Baltimore Sun photo by Algerina Perna

This is Hale's house in Easton in Talbot County. Hale rehabbed an existing house on the property into a eight-bedroom, lodge-like home. Instead of hiring a decorator, Hale picked out every single item in the house.

This is Hale's house in Easton in Talbot County. Hale rehabbed an existing house on the property into a eight-bedroom, lodge-like home. Instead of hiring a decorator, Hale picked out every single item in the house. (Baltimore Sun photo by Algerina Perna)

Edwin F. Hale Sr. makes coffee in the kitchen of his Easton home. Hale and his hunting friends often prepare duck or geese that they have killed at his kitchen, which overlooks the water.

Edwin F. Hale Sr. makes coffee in the kitchen of his Easton home. Hale and his hunting friends often prepare duck or geese that they have killed at his kitchen, which overlooks the water. (Baltimore Sun photo by Algerina Perna)

Since stepping down last month as founder, chairman and CEO of the now-struggling 1st Mariner Bank, Ed Hale has more time for hunting, among other things, on his Talbot County farm. This life of relative leisure is unusual for the former truck and shipping magnate who rose to prominence as an ambitious outsider, taking over the Bank of Baltimore in a proxy fight in the early 1990s. Read more about Hale here.